Timothy has spent his career in two very different rooms -- the boardroom and the classroom -- and found the same problem waiting in both.
He's taught and mentored graduate students navigating their careers, worked alongside CTE teachers and administrators, and coached executives through hard decisions -- and kept noticing the same gap everywhere: people with real technical skill who still couldn't connect, communicate, or believe in what they were capable of.
He has been a featured speaker at the Colorado CTE state convention, the closing speaker at the Pennsylvania State Conference, and trains every year for New York's Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center. Earlier in his career, he worked directly with Aubrey Daniels, author of the best-selling Performance Management: Changing Behavior That Drives Organizational Effectiveness, helping build a graduate level curriculum in performance management.
What makes his training actually land is the same skill that makes his fiction work: a gift for taking something complicated -- neural plasticity, communication theory, character development -- and making it simple enough for a teacher to use on Monday morning. He's also the author of the Apprentice Trilogy, coming-of-age fiction that puts these same principles into a story students want to finish.
He lives in Olin, Iowa, with his wife, and still finds his way into a classroom every chance he gets.